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> A wasted day may lead to a wasted life This smacks of anxiety and FOMO. Thinking like this would drive me absolutely paranoid. Life is much more stochastic t
by bearer_token 7y ago
> A wasted day may lead to a wasted life
This smacks of anxiety and FOMO. Thinking like this would drive me absolutely paranoid. Life is much more stochastic than this.
Yes, it is likely that in retrospect a few select hours of work may have unlocked huge value. You don't know which hours in advance. It is highly unlikely that one missed day will derail your life.
It's highly more likely that a wasted day was necessary to recover from a lingering illness, fatigue, or stress. It's OK to have an impromptu sabbath.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt's not the one wasted day that will derail your life. It's one wasted day after another, after another, after another...
- feanaro 7y agoYes, but it doesn't help to fear that one wasted day will lead to this chain.
- rckoepke 7y agoFor a year or two I had a mantra: "A day is a length of time that no man is rich enough to waste". It wasn't grammatically/syntactically valid, but it worked well as a token for a concept that helped me immensely those years.
- feanaro 7y agoI guess it depends on your personality. Fear-based tactics don't usually work well on me, they just make me anxious about what I am supposedly going to lose. Once I realize that there is in fact nothing to lose, I can relax and handle things effortlessly.
- proverbialbunny 7y agoYou can be paranoid about it, or you can do something about it. ;)